I've been getting hit with a lot more spam trackbag pings and denied comments the last few weeks and I just found out why - MT Blacklist has been discontinued with the arrival of the new and apparently very spam-resistant Movable Type 3.2. I was still on MT 3.15 so I must have suddenly become a huge spammer target.

So I upgraded to 3.2 tonight, not too hard, I got a couple of errors but everything seems to be working now. I hope the spam filters are as good as Blacklist, as much as I was getting tired of despamming all those pings and comments, at least I knew it was working. Thanks forever to Jay Allen for all of his hard work, apparently he had to endure a major bandwidth attack before everything was settled, poor guy. I grabbed his little "screw the spammers" banner (uploaded to my own server, of course), maybe it will discourage some of the perverts that have been attacking me.

I also deleted my old Blogsnob exchange links code because all I've been seeing for months now is "Pheedo Exchange" ads, they bought Blogsnob, but the thing is obviously not working now (I tried emailing them to ask what's up) and it's just slowing down my page loading time. I just checked and it appears I'm still registered with them, so I guess I'll try one more time to reenter the code, because it's a fun little exchange when it works.